Perhaps you’re sitting in a room with shelves full of home movies recorded with a video camera. Or maybe you have a stack of favorite TV episodes, movies, and concerts are stored to a VHS tape. Whatever you think to preserve for your children and grandchildren, chances are you – like many of us – have a precious value of video recordings that you have accumulated over the years.
The problem, analog video has the quality of the decrease over time and often played back. Plus, VCR tapes very uncomfortable to be saved, because they take up less space for storage. And the linear nature of tape merely forwarding and rewinding it, so boring to be used. And then there’s that extra gear you need to keep around – means always having to play a VHS VCR nearby, or having to remove your camcorder from the closet, connect to your TV, and use the controls awkward to search through the recording. Would not it be easier if you could put your valuable videos on DVD?
The good news: Transfer video from VHS tapes to DVD can be done relatively easily. You can pay a service agent to do it for you, or just go ahead and do it yourself if you have the right equipment.
DVDs are easier to store and play hundreds of times without losing any quality unlike VHS tapes, so a good idea to convert VHS tapes to DVD format. For your benefit, there are several ways to convert your cassette. Find ways that suit your needs, most but be careful that each way has its advantages and disadvantages.
But before you start the conversion, you should consider some warn. When you copy from tape to DVD, do not expect to produce your disc to look as crisp as your store-bought DVDs. Even at maximum quality mode, DVD video is very solid, so you will lose something in picture quality.
Bellow is a few ways to convert your VHS Tape into DVD:
– Run a connecting wire from a VCR camcorder to a DVD recorder. Insert a VHS tape in the camcorder and a Blank DVD disc into DVD Player. Press play button on the camcorder and the recorder to rip the video directly to disk. The quality of transfers is good because it is a direct conversion.
– connect the VCR to the computer via a special link box that runs through the USB drive. Box comes with conversion software to connect to a computer that converts the video into MPEG-2 video file. After the file that you want to convert, copy to DVD via DVD burning software. This conversion provides the lowest quality because it is not a direct conversion, but you have the ability to customize menus and add other things that can not be done by way of another conversion.
– Convert VHS tapes in VCR/DVD combination recorder. Slide the VHS tape into the VHS side and a blank DVD into the DVD drive. Use the menu to select the option for record. Using the VCR / DVD recorder combination is easy because there are no other tools are required and provide high-quality conversion.
